Does Beelzebub know something Satan doesn't or does he admit something that Satan will not admit?.Try to explain some of Satan's errors in logic.Is Satan a skilled rhetorician? How so?.Work out what the arguments of these two speakers are.Also examine the latter's response to this speech as well as Satan's counter-response to Beëlzebub's words. Examine the first speech that Satan makes, the one he makes only to his arch-lieutenant, Beëlzebub.Nine days they lie on a lake of fire, then regain consciousness to find themselves in Hell. Satan is cast out of Heaven, together with his “horrid crew”.According to Milton, Satan's motive was to be above his peers. Note how easily Milton moves from prayer into an account of Satan's fall, by asking who or what caused man to fall.What purposes do the lines (50-83) serve that immediately follow the invocation and question and answer?.Milton states that his purpose is to: “Assert eternal providenceAnd justify the ways of God to men.” This section is a prayer, in which Milton states his subject, and asks for divine assistance in giving voice to it. Milton marries his Christian theme and neo-classical method by invoking, as his muse, the Holy Spirit, third Person of the Trinity. Characteristic of a classical epic that the poet invokes the aid of his patron muse.What kind of persona would you say is established when one puts all three elements-the invocations, question, and answer-together?.What is the source of the narrator's authority?.Examine the narrator's invocation (lines 1-25) and his epic question and answer (lines 26-49).

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